Nov. 4, 2006
 
Man’s Face Cut in Robbery of His Social Security Check
 
By Tony Rutherford
Huntington News Network Writer
 
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- Accepting a ride to the doctor cost a man the proceeds of his Social Security check and left him bleeding on the streets of Huntington.
 
About 11:30 a.m. Nov. 3, 2006, a 54- year- old man stood near the Papa John’s Pizza lot at Hal Greer Blvd. and Ninth Avenue. A black male estimated to be in his 30s drove past and asked, “how you doin’?” The older man asked for a ride to the eye doctor at Tenth Street and Fifth Avenue. The driver stopped and after the passenger sat down, he told the driver he would “give him a few bucks” if he took him to the Sunoco station at 20th Street and Ninth Avenue to cash his Social Security check. After cashing the check, the driver and his passenger drove to Walnut Street where they went inside the driver’s residence.
 
A second black man arrived and all three headed back to the car with the new arrival hopping in the back seat. The driver drove to the 100 block of Sycamore Street where he stopped near an alley.
 
At that time, the man in the back seat grabbed the passenger by the hair and pulled his head back and demanded that he “give us the money.” The driver slipped his hand into the man’s coat pocket and took the man’s wallet.
 
However, the man in the back seat demanded “all the money” at which time he used a razor styled boxcutter to cut the man’s face. The police report indicated that the laceration went from the corner of his mouth to his ear.
 
The victim then jumped out of the car and the vehicle sped away. A bystander at the corner of St. Louis Avenue and Sycamore Street saw the man bleeding and called 911. The injured man was taken to Cabell Huntington Hospital for treatment.